Salah Abd as-Sabur

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Salah Abd as-Sabur ( Arabic صلاح عبد الصبور, DMG Ṣalāḥ ῾Abd aṣ-Ṣabūr ), also Salah Abdassabur, Salah Abd al-Sabur, Salah Abdel Sabour, Ṣalah-ad-Din Abd-as-Sabur (born May 3, 1931 in Zagazig ; † August 14, 1981 in Cairo ) was an Egyptian poet, essay writer and chronicler of the modern Egyptian cultural scene, playwright, publicist and civil servant in positions of responsibility in the cultural sector.

Life

Salah Abd as-Sabur was born in the Nile Delta as the son of a writer. After first literary acquaintance with contemporary Arab authors ( Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti , Khalil Gibran ), he discovered Friedrich Nietzsche as a teenager . As-Sabur began studying the Arabic language and literature in Cairo in 1947, and soon afterwards he and other Cairo writers and students established the "Egyptian Literary Society". Sustainably influenced Henrik Ibsen's dramas and TS Eliot's poetry as-Saburs poetic self, he that after the first realistic poems ( The people in my country , 1957) turned increasingly existential and metaphysical topics.

As a playwright, as-Sabur did well since the mid-1960s with the play about the Iraqi Sufi al-Hallaj , the tragedy The Death of the Mystic , for which he was awarded the state sponsorship award (theater) in 1966; The Night Traveler was published in 1969. Other pieces are The Princess Waiting (1969), Layla and the Obsessed (1970) and After the King's Death (1973).

In addition to his literary work, Salah Abd as-Sabur also held various state activities; from 1976 to 1979 he was Egyptian cultural attaché in New Delhi, from 1979 director of the state book organization and state secretary until his death on September 14, 1981 in Cairo.

Works (selection)

  • Ma`sat al-Hallağ / The Death of the Mystic. (مأساة الحلاج 1974); Bilingual: Arabic / German. Translation by Nagi Naguib, Stefan Reichmuth 1981, ISBN 3-922825-05-2 .
  • The night traveler. A black comedy. (مسافر ليل 1968). ; Translated by Dietlind Schack. 1982, ISBN 3-922825-01-X .
  • Angelika Neuwirth (Ed.): Layla wa-l-magnun / Layla and the possessed. (Arabic / German) Translated by Ibrahim Abu-Hashhash. 1991, ISBN 3-922825-01-X .

literature

  • Abd as-Sabūr, Salāh. In: Stefan Weidner (Ed.): The color of the distance: modern Arabic poetry. 2000, ISBN 3-406-45860-2 , p. 277.
  • al-Sabur, Salah Abd (writer). In: Peter Priskil : Die Karmaten: What Arab merchants and craftsmen knew over 1000 years ago: religion doesn't have to be. 2007, ISBN 978-3-89484-606-0 , p. 140.
  • ʿAbd-aṣ-Ṣabūr, Ṣalāḥ: Maʾ sāt al-Ḥallāj. In: Claudia Keilig: The figure of the Iraqi mystic al-Hallaj in the Arab theater drama. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-5659-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nagi Naguib: Afterword. In: Salah Abd as-Sabur: The Death of the Mystic / Ma`sat al-Hallağ. (Arabic 1965) 1981, ISBN 3-922825-05-2 .
  2. ↑ Angelika Neuwirth: Introduction In: Laylā wa-l-mağnūn = Laylā and the possessed / Ṣalāḥ ʿAbdaṣṣabūr. 1991, ISBN 3-923507-13-5 .
  3. ↑ Werner Diem : ṢALĀḤ ʿABD AL-ṢABŪR: Murder in Baghdad. Translated by Kh. I. Semann. Leiden 1972 ; in: Journal of the German Oriental Society. 123 (1973), pp. 409 f.
  4. ↑ Mervat Abdel Fattah: Salah Abdel Sabour (1931-1981) ; biographical information from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

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personal data
SURNAME Abd as-Sabur, Salah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abdassabur, Salah; Abd al-Sabur, Salah; Abdel Sabour, Salah; Abd-as-Sabur, Ṣalah-ad-Din (full name); صلاح عبد الصبور (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian writer and thinker of the Arab world
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagazig
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1981
Place of death Cairo